What hooked you?

thrillbillie91
Edited Date/Time 5/16/2020 7:16pm
I was just watching some terrafirma and it reminded me what really got the hooks into me, mc castilo ranch did it for me
What was the thing that made everything about Moto for you?
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First 5 seconds seeing sx on TV when we finally got satellite TV in 1996.
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Indian_Dunes_4ever 5/6/2020 11:49am
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Seeing my first race on TV in the late 70's.....I remember Mike Bell and Chuck Sun in that race. That's when I started wanting a dirt bike of my own. Mom and Pop told me I'd have to earn the money for it.... thanks Mom and Dad for that life lesson.
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Crusty demons 1-2 just do it for me
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My 8th grade girlfriend...
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thrillbillie91 5/6/2020 11:55am
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mwssquad827 wrote:
Crusty demons 1-2 just do it for me
Those films have a lot to answer for 😁
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On Any Sunday, in the theater.

I'm kinda old
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On Any Sunday
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thrillbillie91 wrote:
I was just watching some terrafirma and it reminded me what really got the hooks into me, mc castilo ranch did it for me What was...
I was just watching some terrafirma and it reminded me what really got the hooks into me, mc castilo ranch did it for me
What was the thing that made everything about Moto for you?
The first time I let the clutch out on my RM80
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I remember being a kid and my father brought us to visit his cousin who lived on a farm. His cousin had a YZ250 leaning against the barn.

We thought it was cool so he started it, ripped it up and down the road a few times, and that was it. Hooked on moto. It just grew from there.
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When I was like 4 years old I went into the garage and my brother had bought a RM80.. So I climbed up on it and was just playing , then I found the kick starter. ring ring ding and off I ran to the house scared to death.

Later I came back and was hooked.
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On Any Sunday
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1980 kindergarten had a red plastic dirt bike toy, fast forward to 4th grade got a 79 Yamaha gt80 for Christmas. DirtBike magazine in the grocery stores Bailey Ward Johnson 85/86 and Excitebike arcade game. And SuperMotocross magazine


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Had a POS step through Honda 50 that was very well used when I got it. Rode the wheels off it all the while dreaming of a SL70. Never got one.
Meanwhile stumbled upon the first issue of MXA in the grocery store and that was it. Hooked!!
Still have that magazine today.
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DA498 wrote:
Had a POS step through Honda 50 that was very well used when I got it. Rode the wheels off it all the while dreaming of...
Had a POS step through Honda 50 that was very well used when I got it. Rode the wheels off it all the while dreaming of a SL70. Never got one.
Meanwhile stumbled upon the first issue of MXA in the grocery store and that was it. Hooked!!
Still have that magazine today.
70cc for me, Dirt Bike Magazine sealed the deal!!
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Opening the trunk of my grandfathers Mercury Cougar, and instead of finding fishing poles, a 69 Honda Mini Trail 50 was laying there. I was 8. A day I remember 34 years later like it was yesterday.
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It was the knobbiess man.....love me some knobbs.
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GoggleFiend904 5/6/2020 1:51pm
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mwssquad827 wrote:
Crusty demons 1-2 just do it for me
Same here. They were recorded onto a single vhs tape. I watched the first one for probably a year and then let a friend borrow it and he discovered that two was also on there. I think this was in the 4th grade lol

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thrillbillie91 wrote:
I was just watching some terrafirma and it reminded me what really got the hooks into me, mc castilo ranch did it for me What was...
I was just watching some terrafirma and it reminded me what really got the hooks into me, mc castilo ranch did it for me
What was the thing that made everything about Moto for you?
Same with me. I wore out the vhs.
thrillbillie91 5/6/2020 1:53pm
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The smell
Nothing like that 2stroke smell, loved following a scooter in the car turn up the ventilation 😋 for a fix
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yeroc281 wrote:
1980 kindergarten had a red plastic dirt bike toy, fast forward to 4th grade got a 79 Yamaha gt80 for Christmas. DirtBike magazine in the grocery...
1980 kindergarten had a red plastic dirt bike toy, fast forward to 4th grade got a 79 Yamaha gt80 for Christmas. DirtBike magazine in the grocery stores Bailey Ward Johnson 85/86 and Excitebike arcade game. And SuperMotocross magazine



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On Any Sunday followed by a Honda Trail 70.
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Being taken to the New Orleans National as a kid. Too young to remember the year but can remember watching through the pickets and seeing “the gully” and “the gully jump”. Funny that for the next 15 years on a bmx bike any jump we did over any undulation was called “the gully” jump. Hooked terribly since.
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Watching the nationals on ESPN in the late 90's. Only took 6 years to convince my parents to let me get a bike!
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Watching my first supercross on TV seeing Mark Barnett (my hero), Broc Glover, Jeff Ward, Mike Bell, Bob Hannah, Kent Howerton, etc. I didn't play any sports except for running track at school. Feel in love with racing motocross and wanted to learn everything I could about it and start racing.
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yeroc281 wrote:
1980 kindergarten had a red plastic dirt bike toy, fast forward to 4th grade got a 79 Yamaha gt80 for Christmas. DirtBike magazine in the grocery...
1980 kindergarten had a red plastic dirt bike toy, fast forward to 4th grade got a 79 Yamaha gt80 for Christmas. DirtBike magazine in the grocery stores Bailey Ward Johnson 85/86 and Excitebike arcade game. And SuperMotocross magazine


My first bike was also the 79 GT80. But I got mine in 93 so I wasn’t the kid with the cool new dirt bike lol. Thanks for posting that though. I did a double take.
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The '78 JR50 Zook that my pops got for me at 3 yrs old in 87, I'd do laps in my front yard in El Toro for hours on end. I'm sure the neighbors hated us
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Getting one of these in first grade.


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Come home from school in 6th grade 1986 to find one of these parked in our shed Smile

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I think I was in 3rd grade, and a couple older kids up the street had KX80's. I saw them riding, and just knew that was what I wanted to do. I had never seen a dirt bike before then.

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